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Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

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Summary

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

  1. Students work on writing sentences that gently sprinkle in alliteration rather than dump it on every word.
  2. Then we introduce consonance, where the same sound repeats at the beginning, middle, and/or end of words. Alliteration is actually a specific type of consonance.

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